The idea of cloud storage was thought of in the 1960's by a man named Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, one of America's top computer scientists. This idea of remote storage was in infancy for many many years and was first released as a remote storage method in 2008 by a company called LiveDrive created by Andrew Michael who was also the founder of the hosting company from the UK entitled Fasthosts. But is cloud storage a revolutionary way to save all of your files? Or is it a semi- secure way of making your files more easily accessible? Many questions follow the idea of all of your files sitting in a massive building in the middle of nowhere. Are my files safe? What if that place blows up? Can other people see my data? How does it work? What companies do I trust with all of my data? Which company has the best prices? Should I still back up the data I put onto the cloud?.
Cloud storage is a new way to save your files that has made many hard-storage technologies obsolete. Methods such as using a hard drive or a USB flash drive to manually upload and transfer your files have been outdated by the effortless and seamless file sharing provided by cloud storage. Most cloud services such as Google Drive uploads your files almost instantly and makes them instantly accessible on your google drive on any device such as your phone, tablet, laptop, another pc, etc. For example if you wanted to transfer all of your music from your old computer to your new computer, you have to wait for the music to download onto a CD or a flash drive/ hard drive then put the flash drive or hard drive into your new computer and wait for installation. This process could take hours, but with Cloud storage it could be done in just minutes by putting your files into the cloud on your old computer and have the music waiting to be taken off the cloud by the time your new PC boots up!.
When you upload data into the Cloud, where is it really going? There has to be some sort of hard storage holding the information such as a flash drive or hard drive.
